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Ruth Stage NEAC

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Afternoon Surfers

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Ruth Stage NEAC
Egg tempera
100 x 120 cm (104 x 124 cm framed)
£4,500
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
26 November 2020

Camber at Sunset

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Ruth Stage NEAC
Egg tempera
36 x 44 cm (39 x 47 cm framed)
£1,200
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
26 November 2020

Cardoons in a Kentish Garden

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Ruth Stage NEAC
Egg tempera
56 x 64 cm (60 x 68 cm framed)
£2,000
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
26 November 2020

Dalia in the Landscape

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Ruth Stage NEAC
Egg tempera
36 x 44 cm (39 x 47 cm framed)
£1,200
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2020
Available for collection: 
26 November 2020

The Thames at Richmond

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Ruth Stage NEAC
Egg tempera
36 x 43 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2019

Tidal River in Sunlight

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Ruth Stage NEAC
Egg tempera
64 x 56 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2018

Walk with Willow Trees

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Ruth Stage NEAC
Egg tempera
69 x 79 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2017

Spring Light

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Ruth Stage NEAC
Egg tempera
38 x 51 cm
Related exhibition:
New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2017
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About Ruth Stage NEAC

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Artist details

Artist's Statement

Ruth Stage shows us the minutiae of the grand vista, a landscape of illumination, pattern, reflection and great distance.

Working in egg tempera she creates a fluidity that reveals dramatic skies, mountain ranges, turbulent shallows. Superimposed onto this is the 'story of the day' be it figures on the beach, the first moment of spring, the remnants of a crop on a frosty morning.

A limited pallette gives an impression of the subtlety of nature, a cluster of almost indistinguishable greys punctuated with the cadmium of a leaf, transparent in the evening glare.

From this complex formula the artist creates coherence,revealing harmony and balance without interruption .

Method of Working

Ruth Stage works in the ancient medium of egg tempera On hand prepared gesso board. The tempera is an emulsion of egg yolk and distilled water and is mixed with mulled raw pigment.

The gesso is made from glue size and chalk whiting all heated up on a stove (never boiled ) to the consistency of Yorkshire pudding mixture. Several layers are left to dry before being sanded and sealed with a final layer of glue size.

Ruth draws on a wide variety of brushes as she paints, often choosing wide and flat brushes for early applications, then working towards pointed more Japanese style for final for final flurries.

Her compositions are sourced in parks and coastal areas and captured with a sketch book and a camera.

Biographical Details

1969   Born Hartlepool

1992 to 1995   Studied Royal Academy Schools, post graduate diploma in painting 

1999   Became a member of the New English Art Club 

1995 to Present   Lives and works in South London

Society Memberships

New English Art Club

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

1995   Young Artist of the Year (Runner Up ), Hunting Art Prizes 

1996   M&G Young Artist of the Year, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 

2000 and 2001   Villiers David Award (Runner Up)

2003   Villiers David Award 

2006   Lynne Painter Stainers Prize (Runner Up)

2011   The Critic's Choice, The New English Art Clup Annual Open Exhibition 

2013   Lynne Painter Stainer Prize 

2014   David Messum Art Prize, The New English Art Clup Annual Open Exhibition

Exhibitions

New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2017
New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition 2016
New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition 2015
New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition 2014

Other exhibitions

2013 and 2015   Campden Gallery (Solo Exhibition)

2012   Hilton Fine Art (Solo Exhibition)

2009, 20011 and 2014   Russell Gallery (Solo Exhibition)

2002   Light and the Landscape, John Davies Gallery (Solo Exhibition)

2001, 2003 and 2006    New Grafton Gallery (Solo Exhibition)

2000   Castlegate House Cockermouth 

1993/96/01/03 and 2015   Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

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